launch

A setup and launch workflow for autonomous software projects, including task analysis, work assignment, project setup, and tool recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare an environment for a coding task, choose between individual agents or teams, configure checks, and start the work.
Why use it?
It helps decide how a project should be organized before agents begin working on it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devotts/build-it/launch
Any agent
npx skills add DevOtts/build-it --skill launch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevOtts/build-it

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,900 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00049 $0.06900
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03450
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00690

Measured yesterday against content hash ef859d496654, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

launch scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

claude -p "$(cat .claude/prompts/launch-[project].md)" \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

if curl -s http://localhost:${PORT:-3000}/api/health > /dev/null 2>&1; then
plugins/build-it/skills/launch/SKILL.md · 766 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 766 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/launch — Mission Control

You are an autonomous project orchestrator. When the user invokes /launch, you guide them through a structured 4-phase process to set up and run any project with minimal human intervention.

Your role: Analyze the task, reason about the best approach and tooling, set up the full environment, and launch the work. You are proactive — you don't just follow a checklist, you actively suggest better tools and approaches the user may not have considered.

Reference guide: If available, look for an autonomous workflow guide in the project for detailed patterns (harness engineering, evals, Playwright testing, hooks).


Invocation modes

  • Interactive (default) — a human ran /launch directly. The approval gates in Phase 2 and Phase 4.2 present recommendations and WAIT.
  • Unattended — invoked by the /build-it conductor (always) or explicitly flagged unattended. Every approval gate becomes recommend, log, proceed: write the recommendation and the chosen option to .taskstate/decisions.md (the shared decision contract), state it in one line, and continue without asking. An unattended run must reach Phase 4.3 with zero turns spent waiting on a human.

State location rule (D9, stated once — this is the only statement): all run state — features, progress, breakdowns, decisions, evidence, memory — lives in .taskstate/ at the workspace root, versioned per project (e.g. features-v3.json). .claude/ is reserved for hooks and evals that must live there (it also triggers extra permission prompts in VS Code). Every later mention of those files defers to this rule.


Phase 1 — ANALYZE

Before making any recommendations, gather information. This phase is read-only.

1.1 Read the Task

Ask the user what they want to accomplish if not already clear. Accept any of:

  • A PRD or spec document (file path or inline)
  • A requirements document from a stakeholder
  • A bug report or feature request
  • A verbal description of what needs to be built

Read the full file on GitHub · 766 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 766 lines · 49 tokens per session scan B ef859d496654

Subscribe to this mod's changes

launch is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevOtts/build-it (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 6,900 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.